For their debut stage appearances in 2006 (one of them being a part of the c/o-pop-festival) this improvisational group announced their style as "psychedelic kraut fusion". And that's probably what describes their music best. Spacey sounds from the minimoog and the high-tech guitar meet heavy grooves from the rhythm section for jazzy excursions. Sometimes it's sheer acid-rock. Sometimes it's experimental electronics. But that's not the whole story. It's a nice game to guess which musician is actually doing what. You'll have the guitar doing bass lines, while the bassist plays synthesizer and the minimoog (amplified by a fender twin) simulates lead-guitar. Confusing enough all the mellotron-strings, organ-bits and lots of other strange sounds come from the guitar.

The recordings were made during rehearsals for those concerts mentioned above, with the exception of "In Fluenza" which is a live-excerpt. Everything was recorded directly and dirty to two-track. Some listeners complained that this style of music would need some more hi-fi. The group's reaction was that they were already considering mono for future.

The original German title "Elektrischer Landadel" is a humorous tribute to Jimi's "Electric Landlady". You can take it as a kind of self-mockery about producing a "double-album-masterwork" just after two gigs. Nowadays the German term "Landadel" is merely used in association to horse-breeds if the talk is not about the past. So that's where all the horses on the cover come from which along with a minimoog-switchboard were merged to some kind of cyborg-icons.

The players:
Wolli Diekmann: drum-set, percussion, metal-stuff
Guido Erfen: bass-guitar, korg m500 micro-preset, effects
Michael Peters: midified e-guitar, sound-generators, effects
Martin Ziegler: minimoog, fender-rhodes piano, effects

Guest:
Michael Frank: e-guitar on "Multi-Funk-Tional"

Important note: If you intent to burn a double-CD from this album, there is an extra CD-R-version of this release available, which differs a bit from the online-version. There are fluxional transitions between the songs then. So please make sure that all breaks are lowered down to zero and that "disc at once"-method is chosen in your burning-software. Enjoy the complete work of art by downloading and printing the cover.

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